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being elected, that was -- there was a study by a group of civil rights groups who had put together a big commission headed by two former secretaries of god, henry cisneros a democrat and i am drawing a blank on the republican from the state who used to play for all with the buffalos. yeah, jack kempe. the two of them were the heads of these two commissions and they studied the existence of housing discrimination and i will just quickly say because some of you may know about this, using audit studies. they demonstrated -- they issued their report in october. obama's elected in november. that report said racism still exist them what they were doing is looking up what happened in the last 40 years from 1968 when the housing act was established to 2008, 40 years later. so it still existed and i could give examples time permitted for almost every other institution in society. so this is what i meant. but every time that we start talking about racism people confuse racism with individuals. racism is not an individual. racism is an act. racism is not what one is. racism is what institutions do.
being elected, that was -- there was a study by a group of civil rights groups who had put together a big commission headed by two former secretaries of god, henry cisneros a democrat and i am drawing a blank on the republican from the state who used to play for all with the buffalos. yeah, jack kempe. the two of them were the heads of these two commissions and they studied the existence of housing discrimination and i will just quickly say because some of you may know about this, using audit...
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we pack up to come to washington on this big train trip. as you can imagine, a big chip for us. my mother's mother was going as well. we are getting ready and coming down the big kill. pretty steep, not very long. my grandmother trips and broke her arm. broken leg. her leg. broker leg. my sister had to get someone to push around the entire time. luckily there was no problem with that. grandmother got on the train. the whole way here. we kept our family vacation intact. what i remember, and the reason i'm telling the story, if you can imagine a girl from carrollton georgia riding the train up, going into the dining car in the morning, sitting around what appear to be a very elegant table at that time in a little flour and looking out of the window and seeing, as you cross the bridge, the potomac, the washington monument. the feeling that i had knowing that i just entered our nation's capitol. later i learned, as i'm sure many of you know, that on the top of the washington monument is the capstone. on the capstone on each side it says praise be to god. as the sun rises over washin
we pack up to come to washington on this big train trip. as you can imagine, a big chip for us. my mother's mother was going as well. we are getting ready and coming down the big kill. pretty steep, not very long. my grandmother trips and broke her arm. broken leg. her leg. broker leg. my sister had to get someone to push around the entire time. luckily there was no problem with that. grandmother got on the train. the whole way here. we kept our family vacation intact. what i remember, and the...
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wise by president bush life enjoyed the conversational tone that he took and his presidency in the big defense white 9/11 and others that are part of the presence and in the process of getting to the karl rove new book, i don't know if anything had more of a lasting impact on what we are talking about today van we did with regard to the economic meltdown. reading secretary powell sen new autobiography would be frustrated with him by the end of the time but to give the benefit of the dow to see his side of the story. french and center and i am also reading new book from a local alabama author called the the final sum it. he takes real people from the past churchill, abraham lincoln, joan of arc, george washington carver and weaves them in a fictitious way but to use real-life examples to inspire us to be better
wise by president bush life enjoyed the conversational tone that he took and his presidency in the big defense white 9/11 and others that are part of the presence and in the process of getting to the karl rove new book, i don't know if anything had more of a lasting impact on what we are talking about today van we did with regard to the economic meltdown. reading secretary powell sen new autobiography would be frustrated with him by the end of the time but to give the benefit of the dow to see...
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>> dodd-frank in my view really missed the big one which is too big to fail. it did nothing about cutting down these institutions to a manageable size, a size that does not imperil the taxpayer. that's the key failing in dodd-frank. another failing is, i think, it has left hundreds of rules to be made by regulator, and so therefore providing a second manipulation possibility for the industry so they got their first chance when they were talking about the legislation, writing the legislation, got their first chance to manipulate, and now they can manipulate the regulators. >> is it better than nothing in >> there's parts that are fine and good, but i think a 3,000-page law, okay, glass was 32 pages, 3,000 pages, you know, it's way overdone and not effective on the crucial issue of too big to fail. >> yeah, and not to take much longer on that, i think i agree with gretchen. why not add one paragraph that essentially said any institution that has to rely on extraordinary government asset purchases, debt guarantees more than 60 day at the windows has senior office
>> dodd-frank in my view really missed the big one which is too big to fail. it did nothing about cutting down these institutions to a manageable size, a size that does not imperil the taxpayer. that's the key failing in dodd-frank. another failing is, i think, it has left hundreds of rules to be made by regulator, and so therefore providing a second manipulation possibility for the industry so they got their first chance when they were talking about the legislation, writing the...
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indeed, that would just give a blank check to the big spenders. they could run for two years. and why is it so important to get a longer debt, bigger debt ceiling increase? and i also thought and believe we have an agreement that the debt ceiling shouldn't be increased more than spending is decreaseed. spending decreased over ten years. you cut $1 trillion, you raise the debt ceiling $1 trillion. we give you ten years on spending cuts, but immediately you get a $1 trillion increase in the debt ceiling. why are we in this fix? this is why. i hate to say it. this is why, there is no doubt about it. the president said last week the only bottom line that i have is that we extend this debt ceiling through the next election until
indeed, that would just give a blank check to the big spenders. they could run for two years. and why is it so important to get a longer debt, bigger debt ceiling increase? and i also thought and believe we have an agreement that the debt ceiling shouldn't be increased more than spending is decreaseed. spending decreased over ten years. you cut $1 trillion, you raise the debt ceiling $1 trillion. we give you ten years on spending cuts, but immediately you get a $1 trillion increase in the debt...
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t we did too big surveys of these folks. what i found fascinating as if began to look through theegan results of the service, the t difference in how people were how pe responding to questions aboutop opportunity and access as anitya function of age or asra generations. would go into this a little bit later, but a short story is s those people who were under 40 and you have a system that i have organized where i call these people generations, the people under 40 responded quitei differently to those who were over 40 in terms of how muchm discrimination date received in the workplace and how much ofp today's date of were available for them personally. just in terms of how difficult it was to make it in americanci, society. and so once i saw this interesting generational break out in the data we went back w ahead of a small group ofarchers researchers and conducted overdu 130 follow-up interviews just in the people in the survey in addition to over 100 interviewst conducted generally from the book.t so it was somewhat differen
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africans are being put in these big jobs that the british have had. they can go into hotels and restaurants that used to say no africans or dogs allowed. now they can go in and order a couple of shots of whiskey. all kinds of things are possible. it was a very exciting time in obama let loose. he was smart. yet a great job when he came back. he had a white wife. he had everything. and he should have been -- gone on to be successful. partly he drinks too much, partly he doesn't have a ph.d.. i think there really was a very large wound, and partly he was a self-destructive character. he argued, he criticized. he complained about the british. they didn't know what they were doing. where were you when i was getting my harvard degree he would say to people. kenyan and british alike and it didn't go well for him. he lost his first job. he was a trainee at shell. he doesn't get re-upped. he is let go and he goes on to a hugely promising job in the research department at the central bank of kenya. this was the new bank. this to could've been the opportunity o
africans are being put in these big jobs that the british have had. they can go into hotels and restaurants that used to say no africans or dogs allowed. now they can go in and order a couple of shots of whiskey. all kinds of things are possible. it was a very exciting time in obama let loose. he was smart. yet a great job when he came back. he had a white wife. he had everything. and he should have been -- gone on to be successful. partly he drinks too much, partly he doesn't have a ph.d.. i...
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how big was it? how many people there in those days? >> rome was about half a million. >> was it, you say was it a republic? >> it was still a republic, yes. it was a republic. it had these assemblies. that had these people's tribunate. it had the senate. the senate was not elected by anybody, well, actually, that's not true. anybody, it's a strange aristocracy. it was somewhat her ed tarry, but it was also electoral. the way your family became an aristocratic family was whe if u had someone in your lineage who had been elected to the highest office which was council. roman council. there were two elected every year. and usually they were elected from the families that already were aristocratic families. >> how did rome fit into italy? >> rome, by this time, by the late republic, dominated all of italy. and there were struggles going on. ceasar was one of them. by people who wanted to extend citizenship beyond rome to much of italy. to the other provinces of italy. so that they would not be subjects, they would be citizens. >> define a
how big was it? how many people there in those days? >> rome was about half a million. >> was it, you say was it a republic? >> it was still a republic, yes. it was a republic. it had these assemblies. that had these people's tribunate. it had the senate. the senate was not elected by anybody, well, actually, that's not true. anybody, it's a strange aristocracy. it was somewhat her ed tarry, but it was also electoral. the way your family became an aristocratic family was whe...
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i spent about one third of 2008 and one-third of 2009 and a big chunk of 2009 and last year i was there for the july for the kabul conference and i was there in december about seven months pregnant working on maternal health stories. >> host: that wasn't a great way to engage with the women because of common experience. now your career as a political television producer for abc. how did you make the transition from that to writing this book? >> guest: very carefully. [laughter] i left abc, and i left abc. you've had a lot of my former boss is on and i know your colleagues at c-span since i was watching, and i left because i knew that there were so many stories i wanted to do that i wouldn't get to do the way the news places were going, and i really care that economic development stories and under told stories, and the stories of the women in war or just almost never told. if i save war story you think about the west which are all the incredible books but the lead out so many people. and these women are the ones who make sure there's a community to go back to when the war is over. >> hos
i spent about one third of 2008 and one-third of 2009 and a big chunk of 2009 and last year i was there for the july for the kabul conference and i was there in december about seven months pregnant working on maternal health stories. >> host: that wasn't a great way to engage with the women because of common experience. now your career as a political television producer for abc. how did you make the transition from that to writing this book? >> guest: very carefully. [laughter] i...
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that's how incumbents lose big it is because they are challenged from within. that's the jimmy carter was challenged by ted kennedy. lyndon johnson was challenged in be. the easiest way to lose an incumbent president is to have to fight to battles at once. as much as i come even if i find america's ago with obama, if i thought he was terrible i still wouldn't be against challenging him. i would be building for 2016. >> with that one why don't we opened up to questions from the audience. you can ask about the presidency. you can ask about eric's dietary restrictions. [laughter] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] >> i can do that. i can be part of it. israel and american jews i want my big issues like pay a lot of attention to it. obama blue in the middle east. there's a very long question. how would one possess obama's dealings with netanyahu and what can we expect from hamas agreement, is that basically it? and egypt. i don't know about egypt. he blew it with regard to the middle east because he started out as he's done altogether too often for many of our cas
that's how incumbents lose big it is because they are challenged from within. that's the jimmy carter was challenged by ted kennedy. lyndon johnson was challenged in be. the easiest way to lose an incumbent president is to have to fight to battles at once. as much as i come even if i find america's ago with obama, if i thought he was terrible i still wouldn't be against challenging him. i would be building for 2016. >> with that one why don't we opened up to questions from the audience....
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it was a big trip for us. my mother's mother was going as well. we're getting ready and we're coming down the big hill on our little house. it's pretty steep, not very long and my grandmother tripped and broke her leg. she broke her leg. ackermann because my sister had to push her around washington the entire tactic likely she was 16. grandma got on the train, she rode the train the hallway here and we kept our family vacation in debt. the reason i'm telling the story is if you can imagine a little rural girl from carrollton, georgia, riding the train up, going into the dining car in the morning, sitting down at what appeared to be a very elegant table, and looking out of the window and seeing as you cross the bridge of natoma, washington monument. and feeling that i had known that i just entered our nations capital. later i learned as i'm sure many of you know, that on the top of the washington monument is the capstone. on the capstone it says praise be to god. as the sun rises over washington every day the first light of the sun strikes the word
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it sounds like a mid-level bureaucracy but this is a big job bringing in the tourists' etc. to me if he lasts for years. he doesn't just a drink on the job, he gets arrested. two months after fer joined driving he starts to lie about what the job is that he travels around the country developing tourism. he claims the title about him she says he's the general manager. he's not the general manager. they didn't really like that. many things began to happen. >> host: it's interesting that you talk about this personal habits and rather messy series of personal behavior with drinking and so long and womanizing. again, looking at the sun, what a contrast. president obama, a very disciplined man in his conduct and the week that he does business, he's got the law professors' attitudes about argued cases and seeing all sides of things, but he's not a confrontational person and i wonder if this is another reaction against his dad or to try to be the opposite of his death i wonder if he had thoughts about that. >> guest: i was trying to think of words between the two of them. president
it sounds like a mid-level bureaucracy but this is a big job bringing in the tourists' etc. to me if he lasts for years. he doesn't just a drink on the job, he gets arrested. two months after fer joined driving he starts to lie about what the job is that he travels around the country developing tourism. he claims the title about him she says he's the general manager. he's not the general manager. they didn't really like that. many things began to happen. >> host: it's interesting that you...
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>> it was a big first. there were a lot of unique features and shopping centers built on such a grand scale with so much attention to aesthetic detail and really just imposing architecture. it was important to the northwest suburbs that the condition of the fact that this area was a boom town. just growing so rapidly and one of the more important areas of chicago at that time. the case i make in the book is it represented a lot of firsts in shopping center buildings. it is meant to be a case study to talk about all shopping centers and all malls and how they developed. the best analogy is it was the floodgate. >> victor bruin has been referred to as the father of the shopping mall. what features or design elements were considered unique at the time of the construction? >> victor drew in was an amazing story. there is a biography of him where i obtained my permission called lawmaker. he was a holocaust refugee who came from vienna in 1939 to america and one of the things that influenced him the most on his a
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they got a big sandwich of nothing. they won't be there in the same numbers at all. i have this theory that the night obama won the election in 2008 was the night he appeared with rick warren who put his arms around him and said i don't agree with everything he says but he is all right. if you look at the numbers in 2008 what changed was the republicans stayed home because they didn't think he was the antichrist. now they think he is the antichrist again so they will turn out and it is not clear that obama's base will turn out and will be a much tougher election which is why all the more crazy people like ralph nader and alexander cockburn are advocating for somebody to challenge him as an independent or with the democratic party. that is how incumbents lose. they lose because they are challenged from within. that is how jimmy carter was challenged by ted kennedy and lyndon johnson was challenged and beaten. the easiest way to lose an incumbent president the is to fight 2001. even if i disagree with obama and thought he was terrible i would be against challenging him
they got a big sandwich of nothing. they won't be there in the same numbers at all. i have this theory that the night obama won the election in 2008 was the night he appeared with rick warren who put his arms around him and said i don't agree with everything he says but he is all right. if you look at the numbers in 2008 what changed was the republicans stayed home because they didn't think he was the antichrist. now they think he is the antichrist again so they will turn out and it is not...
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they got a big sandwich of nothing. they won't be there at all, and the second thing is i have a theory that's unprovable that the night obama won the election in 2008 is the night he appears with rick warren. he said i don't agree with what he all says, but he's already. if you look at the numbers in 2008, the republicans stayed home more than the democrats turned out because they didn't think testifies the anti-christ, but now they think he is, and so they'll turn out again. it's not clear that obama's face is going to turn out, and it's going to be a tough election which is why it's all the more crazy that people like nader are still getting somebody to challenge him either as an independent or within the democratic party. that's how incumbents lose because they are challenged from within. carter was challenged by kennedy. johnson challenged and beaten. the easiest way to lose a presidency is to have to fight two battles at once. as much as i -- even if i disagree with obama and thought hefsz terrible, i would be as
they got a big sandwich of nothing. they won't be there at all, and the second thing is i have a theory that's unprovable that the night obama won the election in 2008 is the night he appears with rick warren. he said i don't agree with what he all says, but he's already. if you look at the numbers in 2008, the republicans stayed home more than the democrats turned out because they didn't think testifies the anti-christ, but now they think he is, and so they'll turn out again. it's not clear...
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. >> big publisher of poems repress, thank you for a few minutes . . who remembers as a girl she lived next door to a lithuanian jewish family. she recalls she would call for young josephine to turn the light on for her. 60 years later you could hear the pride in her voice being called upon for that task. it's probable families living in our tenement open until the year 1935 discussed or of mitered norman thomas. tonight we are pleased to discuss his life and work with louisa thomas d. author of conscience. she will be signing copies of the book after the topic and keep in mind when you buy a book your supporting the author, the publisher and the museum. if you choose to become a member this evening, we will give you a complimentary copy of conscience. tonight's conversation is led by john mechem, executive editor and vice president of random house. a former editor of newsweek and pulitzer prize-winning author and commentator on politics,?g?g history and religious base in?gg america and is editor of our jeg public media and contributor tog the pbs tele
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it was a big story. >> how did the city respond? what did they do? >> for a long time they didn't know what to do. the city council didn't meet for days. everybody that night he fled from their houses. went out into the streets. stayed in any open space they could find, sleeping in the streets, sleeping in the city parks. a lot of people went out to stay on ships that were in the harbor. and then they started to go back to their homes in the morning and the after-shocks drove them right back out again into the streets so people stayed away from their homes for several days. and in a city as racially charged as charleston, remember, it's only 21 years after the end of the civil war and 10 years after the end of reconstruction when whites took back all the government in south carolina, there were tensions among everyone and the parks were integrated the night of the earthquake and they quickly broke into white camps and black camps with people separated by who they felt comfortable with. but they stayed out in the streets for days until the city leader
it was a big story. >> how did the city respond? what did they do? >> for a long time they didn't know what to do. the city council didn't meet for days. everybody that night he fled from their houses. went out into the streets. stayed in any open space they could find, sleeping in the streets, sleeping in the city parks. a lot of people went out to stay on ships that were in the harbor. and then they started to go back to their homes in the morning and the after-shocks drove them...
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so i had this big battle about whether i was going to do the english assignment, and i remember saying to her in the midst of this heated discussion i didn't see the point during these assignments. they were a waste of time. i didn't see what to do this stuff and she said to me well, okay, you are obviously a bright kid and what you decide to do is find so what are we going to do here? and i said well, it seems to me that the point of this class is one, to make sure i have an understanding of the english language and research skills and i can make a coherent argument, so why don't you testing on that? she said why don't you mean? i said have me write something. she said fine, what are you going to write? i said why not a history of riots in america. she said okay. and i went off and several weeks later come back with i don't know how long it was that like a 140 page manuscript and she takes it home, comes back the next monday and this is okay i'm going to give you an essay for the course, but i don't -- i'm not really capable of evaluating this material and i make it from the project.
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so that had a big effect on me. and also i knew that -- many of the writers, even riders that had been blacklisted i had met and i met later in my life. some of the older writers that were very incredible and amazing writers who had been ignored and influenced and lost their momentum because of history. >> host: you opened "dwellings: a spiritual history of the living world" by saying you prayed for an eagle feather. >> guest: yes. the interesting thing is i worked with those -- take an illegal eagle feather. i wanted an eagle feather and i wanted that naming ceremony when i was young. we didn't have them that i knew of at the time. so yes. and then i had an eagle feather. >> host: what is the significance of an eagle feather? >> guest: i couldn't explain it to you. what is the significance? like having -- something that is so -- so special. it is like it could be used -- it can be used for helping, healing, it can be used for speaking. it can be used -- like a speaker's rattle. it can be used for communicating with
so that had a big effect on me. and also i knew that -- many of the writers, even riders that had been blacklisted i had met and i met later in my life. some of the older writers that were very incredible and amazing writers who had been ignored and influenced and lost their momentum because of history. >> host: you opened "dwellings: a spiritual history of the living world" by saying you prayed for an eagle feather. >> guest: yes. the interesting thing is i worked with...
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to afford but also too big to change politically. this is how a aaa country becomes aa, the first step on the march to greece." end of quotation. charles congratulat krauthammerl observer of the political scene, in his column friday in "the washington post" concluded with the following words: "obama faces two massive problems: jobs and debt. they're both the result of his spectacularly failed keynesian gamble, spendin spending that la stagnant economy with high and chronic unemployment and a stag staggering debt burden." and that's the problem, mr. president. a staggering debt burden that requires us to increase our debt ceiling and republicans are saying, in order to stop this cycle of more promises and more spending, we've got to apply some accountability, some common sense and good judgment, and that means, first and foremost, stop the spending. i would note, as i said before, that under president obama, annual spending has gone up by $1.2 trillion each of the years. the deficit by peds 1.4 trillion. and i ask again, do you notice
to afford but also too big to change politically. this is how a aaa country becomes aa, the first step on the march to greece." end of quotation. charles congratulat krauthammerl observer of the political scene, in his column friday in "the washington post" concluded with the following words: "obama faces two massive problems: jobs and debt. they're both the result of his spectacularly failed keynesian gamble, spendin spending that la stagnant economy with high and chronic...
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>> um, dodd-frank, in my view, really missed, whiffed the big one which is too big to fail, did nothing about cutting down these institutions to a manageable size, to a size that does not imperil the taxpayer. that is the key failing in dodd-frank. another failing, i think, is that it has left hundreds of rules to be made by regulators, and so, therefore, providing a second manipulation possibility for the industry. so they got their first chance when they were talking about the legislation, writing the legislation, they got their first chance to manipulate. now they can manipulate the regulators, two bites of the apple. >> is it any better than nothing? >> i think there are parts of it that are fine, that are good. but i think that a 3,000-page law, okay? glass-steagall was 32 pages. 3,000 pages is, you know, it's way overdone and not, um, not effective on the crucial issue of too big to fail. >> yeah. not to, not to take much longer on that, i think i agree with gretchen. you know, why couldn't you have just added one paragraph that, essentially, said any institution that has to rely
>> um, dodd-frank, in my view, really missed, whiffed the big one which is too big to fail, did nothing about cutting down these institutions to a manageable size, to a size that does not imperil the taxpayer. that is the key failing in dodd-frank. another failing, i think, is that it has left hundreds of rules to be made by regulators, and so, therefore, providing a second manipulation possibility for the industry. so they got their first chance when they were talking about the...
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so there was a big fight. saul bellow had made one of my favorite memories and the festival were the opening ceremony was the public library, and because norman mailer had in many people's views invited secretary of state george shultz to deliver the opening address, not long after he made a statement supporting the apartheid regime in africa which meant the south african writers boycotted the event. because he was there there was a in almost presidential level of security around the public library, and we all had to bring various forms of id and he forgot to bring his ied. and this was actually quite soon after he won the nobel prize so there was an extraordinary fight and i saw him on the chair like this outside the entrance not being allowed in on till norman mailer camera panned vouched for him. you can just imagine how much he had enjoyed being vouched for. the nobel laureate was. so it was a very contentious time, but one of the reasons it was contentious is all of us believed the public role of the writ
so there was a big fight. saul bellow had made one of my favorite memories and the festival were the opening ceremony was the public library, and because norman mailer had in many people's views invited secretary of state george shultz to deliver the opening address, not long after he made a statement supporting the apartheid regime in africa which meant the south african writers boycotted the event. because he was there there was a in almost presidential level of security around the public...
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this big american carrier. guess what? they don't fit on british and french attack aircraft. i was stunned to learn that because i thought, if nothing else, we have been practicing. you know, doing all these things. i'm going to switch gears and go to you, but out tell you, this idea came from, the u.s. navy invited me a couple of years ago to watch carrier operations. i was on board one of our atomic nuclear power carriers. that is somehow fit, how tell you. what they do on those carriers is just out of this world. i was having dinner. on one side of me -- this will be meaningful to the west point cadets, the executive officer pretty much runs his ship. on the other side was the commander of the fighter squadron. i asked -- probably 14 year or 12 year age difference between them. i asked the xl, i said, hey, what do you think about nato. by that time my wife had gone news to me at any dinner party. he gave me this whole picture about how we could never do without it. this is the anchor of western security. over dessert aston exactly the same question to the commander of the
this big american carrier. guess what? they don't fit on british and french attack aircraft. i was stunned to learn that because i thought, if nothing else, we have been practicing. you know, doing all these things. i'm going to switch gears and go to you, but out tell you, this idea came from, the u.s. navy invited me a couple of years ago to watch carrier operations. i was on board one of our atomic nuclear power carriers. that is somehow fit, how tell you. what they do on those carriers is...
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trouble also casts a big set up was particularly daunting. but extraordinarily rewarding. there are certain voices that one hears when one writes. anthony lukas was one. i'm very humbled to receive this award. thank you. [applause] [applause] >> next finalist his paul greenberg. the future of the last while food. ♪ has written everything but the ticket from the outer banks to japan to norway in pursuit of the good fish, self sustaining, plentiful, tasty comanche. taught was such a fish and to commercial fishing lives like a contender for a while. tuna, the fourth fish will never be any of those things except for tasty. the number one example of what not seek. his case for environmental response will fishing industry and 39 for all is both highly readable and very important. come on up. [applause] [applause] >> i'll say a word to. i am really glad to see fish recognized in the general scheme of things. often their under water, and is really no coincidence that there are not recognized. but you know, there are many fish in the sea. can't talk
trouble also casts a big set up was particularly daunting. but extraordinarily rewarding. there are certain voices that one hears when one writes. anthony lukas was one. i'm very humbled to receive this award. thank you. [applause] [applause] >> next finalist his paul greenberg. the future of the last while food. ♪ has written everything but the ticket from the outer banks to japan to norway in pursuit of the good fish, self sustaining, plentiful, tasty comanche. taught was such a fish...
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complex of building, helping, developing projects that's going on that really are designed to be one big branch stray teemingic thing wherever you look in the middle east, and that is to shore up the strength, the responsiveness of the state wherever they look, whether with iraq or iraq today or afghanistan to prevent pakistan from continuing to sell the idea of a two-state solution for israel and palestine are all within the concept of the international space system. that is, we don't have strong systems and things are going in the wrong direction. >> host: what i see on the ground when i travel often to afghanistan is to be honest with all the power of the u.s. military, we have an up credibly well-led military, but in the end that's not enough to substitute for the poor government there is and the institutions provide, and it's like, you know, we're pushing this rock uphill and we just never quite get there. i'm sure you wouldn't disagree and it's hard to find anybody to defend president karzai's government. >> guest: that's true too. it brings us back to democratization and that proc
complex of building, helping, developing projects that's going on that really are designed to be one big branch stray teemingic thing wherever you look in the middle east, and that is to shore up the strength, the responsiveness of the state wherever they look, whether with iraq or iraq today or afghanistan to prevent pakistan from continuing to sell the idea of a two-state solution for israel and palestine are all within the concept of the international space system. that is, we don't have...
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she thought it was no big deal. as she walked into the clinic, something odd happened. another girl looked at her and said all babies want to be born. she ignored her. your baby had a heart. she thought this was propaganda. your baby has fingernails. that was odd. she walked into the abortion clinic and sat down. she glanced around and couldn't help that everyone was playing with their fingernails. tapping them, she thought fingernails, i have a life growing inside of me. she walked out of the abortion clinic. that was the end of the story. let me ask you this. how many remember the statistic that you gave you about a minute and a half go? how many of you remember what prompted jane? everybody remembers. fingernails. even though of you who remember the statistic 1,465,000. they have abandoned as an emotional tool. we think that intellectual argument trumps emotion. you hear it on talk radio all the time. we have -- of all of the logical arguments, we have all of the facts on our side. they rely on emotion all the time. yeah, well, because it works. we need to start taki
she thought it was no big deal. as she walked into the clinic, something odd happened. another girl looked at her and said all babies want to be born. she ignored her. your baby had a heart. she thought this was propaganda. your baby has fingernails. that was odd. she walked into the abortion clinic and sat down. she glanced around and couldn't help that everyone was playing with their fingernails. tapping them, she thought fingernails, i have a life growing inside of me. she walked out of the...
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she thought it was no big deal. as she walked into the clinic something odd happened to another girl cautioned her and said all babies want to be born. james ignored or. what did this young woman no? your baby has a hard. jane in order again. your baby has fingernails. now, that was odd. this should occur. she walked into the abortion clinic and she sat down. she glanced around and she couldn't help but notice that everyone is playing with their fingernails. tapping them on the tables, chewing on them and she thought i have a life growing inside of me and she walked out of the abortion clinic and that was the end of the story. how many of you remember the statistic i gave you about a minute and a half ago? how many of you remember what prompted jane to walk out of the abortion clinic? everybody remembers the fingernails. and i promise you we cannot even those who your remembered the statistic, 1,466,000, those who remember the forgotten assist a six and would have remembered the finger nails. narratives matter. we h
she thought it was no big deal. as she walked into the clinic something odd happened to another girl cautioned her and said all babies want to be born. james ignored or. what did this young woman no? your baby has a hard. jane in order again. your baby has fingernails. now, that was odd. this should occur. she walked into the abortion clinic and she sat down. she glanced around and she couldn't help but notice that everyone is playing with their fingernails. tapping them on the tables, chewing...
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we don't have it yet, it "big little man", the asian meltdown of the asian century. alex tizon takes readers on a deep exploration of what it is meant to be an innovation dissent in the western world from the earliest days of the asian migration. beginning with an account of his family's arrival in the united states as philippine immigrants in 1964, tizon is creating that promises to be an elegantly constructed and deeply personal work of sociological observations that explores the historical come as psychological and economic underpinnings of his stereotype so deeply embedded in western culture that asian men believed it themselves. alex tizon. i back [applause] >> and we have two finalists here. first, joe tizon for the fiddler on time to go run, published by simon & schuster. while many authors have given up eliminating works on race in america, joe says mozingo is headed towards his own achievements on the fiddler and can take a run. mozingo, the author informs us is one of the few of all the african surnames to survive slavery in america. most americans i now wa
we don't have it yet, it "big little man", the asian meltdown of the asian century. alex tizon takes readers on a deep exploration of what it is meant to be an innovation dissent in the western world from the earliest days of the asian migration. beginning with an account of his family's arrival in the united states as philippine immigrants in 1964, tizon is creating that promises to be an elegantly constructed and deeply personal work of sociological observations that explores the...
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that was a big part of bin laden's persona. he wrote poetry. and he is, he was always described in personal dealings with him as, you know, rather gentle and con said rate -- considerate, far from a screamer. zawahiri, i gather, is not a pleasant person to be around at all. much more rigid, much more didactic, mind you, we're talking about opposing characters who planned 9/11, so i don't want to push that one too far. but i think in portraying bin laden it was important to get him right and see him as his act colite who was going to put his life on the line for this plot would see him, as an inspirational figure. that only makes sense. because you're not seeing him when you're the reader. you're not seeing him through the americans' point of view, you're seeing him from the point of view from someone who's actually been inspired by him, and you want to understand how that could possibly be. >> and one of the things your characters from the west or the middle east have in common is that they're having to use different identities. brooke chandler
that was a big part of bin laden's persona. he wrote poetry. and he is, he was always described in personal dealings with him as, you know, rather gentle and con said rate -- considerate, far from a screamer. zawahiri, i gather, is not a pleasant person to be around at all. much more rigid, much more didactic, mind you, we're talking about opposing characters who planned 9/11, so i don't want to push that one too far. but i think in portraying bin laden it was important to get him right and see...
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i mean it seems to me that is such a big issue. getting our kids just through high school and into college. i work for a foundation in d.c. called pozzi and i think we are are -- to be our executive director and what they do is they work to get disadvantaged kids into college. so how do we address our failing public school system especially when it comes to black kids? >> whoa, that is big. >> first of all, thank you for your remark and of course tomorrow lawson is the new d.c. coordinator of the foundation in d.c.. i'm so proud of her and she is my baby girl. she is really coretta's baby girl but i borrow her from time to time. we are excited about her. >> she was hired in a nanosecond. it was like m, calm. but we are excited about that and i'm excited about the image that the foundation has which is really about changing the metrics around college attendance. here is what we have to do you all. whoever is in in the -- within the sound of my voice, going to college is not warring. it is not nerdy. it is not white folk. eight is ho
i mean it seems to me that is such a big issue. getting our kids just through high school and into college. i work for a foundation in d.c. called pozzi and i think we are are -- to be our executive director and what they do is they work to get disadvantaged kids into college. so how do we address our failing public school system especially when it comes to black kids? >> whoa, that is big. >> first of all, thank you for your remark and of course tomorrow lawson is the new d.c....
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and although i've seen her once before, the big time i saw her was when i had the first tech writing accident in the my back and was unconscious for a while. as a kid, for chile part of overcoming out with not believing the doctors and a side you should be glad you can walk. you are lucky you weren't dead. oh yeah, sure, but i wanted to do more. we kept going. finally had to go to the chiropractor to find somebody that said maybe exercise is okay. maybe you can try jogging. yeah, maybe you could use that to strength in your back. i latched onto god and that is when i got into dance team chemistry living in the which an escape --a physical escape. i felt great. i got my body back. and then just as you start to feel good, life has a tendency sometimes to thought you back down. it is happening to me. i had some fun times, cheerleading, i'm sure there's not a lot of people out there i would even admit that they were trying to clean if they [laughter] while to us. and you know what, i would have rather two minute track here. i thought a tractor queen is good. i'm queen of the track truce.
and although i've seen her once before, the big time i saw her was when i had the first tech writing accident in the my back and was unconscious for a while. as a kid, for chile part of overcoming out with not believing the doctors and a side you should be glad you can walk. you are lucky you weren't dead. oh yeah, sure, but i wanted to do more. we kept going. finally had to go to the chiropractor to find somebody that said maybe exercise is okay. maybe you can try jogging. yeah, maybe you...
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i think being muslim is a big part of who he is, and a big part of what makes it challenging for everyone, but i also notice that malcolm x becomes more and more alienated as he goes along because he challenges life, he challenges politics, and people go, oh, yeah, you did great, but he keeps going and challenging, goes to another country. one, he becomes muslim and becomes separate from the people he's around, going to another country, all the sudden becoming different from other americans around him. it seems like he's the life of increased alienation that in a way it's strange that he was killed by african-americans just like gandhi was killed by hindus. >> let you close out the evening and respond to this. just you left? get up there. sorry. i thought there was a whole line. >> i'm a student at the university. my question is because there's been discussion, kind i briefly about black nationalism, and i guess my question is is it possible to have a formulation of black nationalism that addresses the policing that goes on in some of what is referred to as the fascist elements of insular
i think being muslim is a big part of who he is, and a big part of what makes it challenging for everyone, but i also notice that malcolm x becomes more and more alienated as he goes along because he challenges life, he challenges politics, and people go, oh, yeah, you did great, but he keeps going and challenging, goes to another country. one, he becomes muslim and becomes separate from the people he's around, going to another country, all the sudden becoming different from other americans...
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the big one was what kind of a book was that i was trying to write? i finally saw the distinction as one between telling a story or describing, explaining and judging. a lot of history in fall describing, explaining and judging of large and complicated things but the things that drew me to history originally and to writing in general was the compelling nature of stories which would take hold of you. you couldn't let them go. i decided that was one wanted to do. the incredible task of interesting characters here many of whom were visible and there were dramatic events taking place. the killing of crazy horse which took place in 1877 in some ways was a minor event but on the other hand it was devastating in its psychological effects on the indians and other indians as well and that is still the case. most americans get through years at a time without thinking of the killing of crazy horse but that is not true. they resent it and they are still -- there are still factions in the tribe that are glad of it. they did what they could to ensure that crazy hor
the big one was what kind of a book was that i was trying to write? i finally saw the distinction as one between telling a story or describing, explaining and judging. a lot of history in fall describing, explaining and judging of large and complicated things but the things that drew me to history originally and to writing in general was the compelling nature of stories which would take hold of you. you couldn't let them go. i decided that was one wanted to do. the incredible task of...
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[laughter] >> and i'll stop there because that was my big step. on being able to stand in front of a group dripping wet, no makeup and what makeup was there was sliding down my face and pulling it doting. and having the electricity go out this morning at 2:00 it's nothing compared to what i've been through in the past. [laughter] >> as miss oklahoma, suddenly you're thrust into the spotlight not only as a representative of the state but as we all know a lot of times with native people, once we're put in the spotlight we're suddenly asked to represent all native people. how did you balance that? i mean, how did you become an advocate for native people but without, you know, taking on that representative of the whole? >> well, i think mainly because i probably never felt really normal. and so i never -- well, really, if you read the book and see how i grew up, it's hard to think of myself being normal. so it's really -- i can't speak for other people because i'm not normal. so i only speak for myself. [laughter] >> but i did -- there were a lot of p
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it is also shining a light independent bookstores were greatly impacted by the rise of big bucks superstores so it would be interesting to see what they could do not just as borders retracts fifth and closes up shops as barnes & noble transitions into a digital format. >> what is the fiscal health of barnes & noble? >> that is in an interesting spot. record sales but because they spend so much money in terms of developing the know quote wind and the digital business they had to suspend the dividend for the last two quarters. wall street has not been entirely happy about this. there were also in the process of trying to sell themselves as of one year-ago in in early may, liberty media which is owned by john malone put in of bid at $17 a share and that is considered in the company is doing to diligence but it remains to be seen there are some favorable signs and also spoken highly of each other in the media, at this point*, perhaps not of up in the air but hardly a done deal. >> tell us about the publishers marketplace and if people want to follow you? >> i am a news editor for publishers mark
it is also shining a light independent bookstores were greatly impacted by the rise of big bucks superstores so it would be interesting to see what they could do not just as borders retracts fifth and closes up shops as barnes & noble transitions into a digital format. >> what is the fiscal health of barnes & noble? >> that is in an interesting spot. record sales but because they spend so much money in terms of developing the know quote wind and the digital business they had...
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that's the big sticking point here in the united states senate. we need to know that if there is a trigger that is used, an automatic way in which money is going to be held back, that money has to be held back in a fair and balanced way, which means you don't just cut. you also have to have the threat of revenue. because if you don't have the threat of revenue, then the side that only wants to cut can just wait for nothing to happen, and the cuts take place automatically. there's no threat to them. there's no leverage to them to come to agreement on the other things. that's reasonableness, i believe, mr. president. i think what we're looking for here is reasonable. it is fair. and it is balanced. mr. president, the house strategy has been essentially not to negotiate. not to negotiate. now, we also know that there are a lot of misstatements out here. senator reid just corrected one a moment ago about a deal. in addition to that, we keep hearing people say that there's no plan. the president doesn't have a plan, that nothing's been reduced to writi
that's the big sticking point here in the united states senate. we need to know that if there is a trigger that is used, an automatic way in which money is going to be held back, that money has to be held back in a fair and balanced way, which means you don't just cut. you also have to have the threat of revenue. because if you don't have the threat of revenue, then the side that only wants to cut can just wait for nothing to happen, and the cuts take place automatically. there's no threat to...
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there was a big part of his persona. he wrote poetry. he was always described in personal dealings with him as generally considered far from as screen. not a pleasant person. is not a pleasant person to be a round ball. much more rigid, much more didactic. mind you, we're talking about the characters, somebody who planned to 9/11. that didn't want to push that went too far. in portraying osama bin laden it was important to get him right in see him as his acolyte who is going to put his life on the line for this plot would see him as an inspirational figure. that only makes sense because you're not seeing him when you are the reader. you aren't seeing him through the americans what do you been seeing it to the point of view of someone who is actually experiencing and has been inspired by him. you want to understand how that could possibly be. >> one of the things your characters from the west german least seven common is that they are having to use different identities. he has to change its name. the characters are having to impose differ
there was a big part of his persona. he wrote poetry. he was always described in personal dealings with him as generally considered far from as screen. not a pleasant person. is not a pleasant person to be a round ball. much more rigid, much more didactic. mind you, we're talking about the characters, somebody who planned to 9/11. that didn't want to push that went too far. in portraying osama bin laden it was important to get him right in see him as his acolyte who is going to put his life on...
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that's a lot of big complicated ideas there but maybe you could unpack that for us 'cause i found that really at the heart of the arguments you're making here. >> this book and some of the others here but the aallowi is perhaps the most comprehensive of intellectuals of the muslim world for taking on this very, very seriously. and they have to have a great deal of respect because they are turning away from it. they are not giving us the easy answers. they are not putting any veils over things. and it really does come down to -- the only way i see it, it's very hard to see true muslims being able to do this. but there are some ideas here that are coming to the floor and i treat these as well that shows some indications that there is in islam, in even traditional islam, there are plenty of places to go in the theology of it where if you want to do it, you can find that -- what you want to do in terms of moving toward a more procedural more modern way can be done -- >> host: it does shrink the role and claims of its vis-a-vis safe. >> guest: the one thing that i think is the key to this a
that's a lot of big complicated ideas there but maybe you could unpack that for us 'cause i found that really at the heart of the arguments you're making here. >> this book and some of the others here but the aallowi is perhaps the most comprehensive of intellectuals of the muslim world for taking on this very, very seriously. and they have to have a great deal of respect because they are turning away from it. they are not giving us the easy answers. they are not putting any veils over...
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apple wuss big, then it -- was big, then it went away for a while, then it was back again. so it should be obvious that the 1980s is back, and for various reasons i argue in the book, it is back. and i don't think it's just because of the nostalgia factor although that's certainly a factor. also there's some coincidences. i had mentioned on my radio show a couple days ago that the weird coincidence, although you may see it not just as a coincidence, that 25 years ago almost to the exact week and, certainly, to the exact month the united states military was bombing libya, and the world was wrapped with the detention about a nuclear meltdown at chernobyl. those two things happened almost exactly 25 years ago to the month. so as much of this is pop culture, some of it is very, very real. and what i argue in the book is that the popular culture of the 1980s, the iconography of the 1980s in many ways has inspired the way we hook at real world -- look at real world events and how real world, i guess you would call them actors, behave today. so here are just, again, some examples,
apple wuss big, then it -- was big, then it went away for a while, then it was back again. so it should be obvious that the 1980s is back, and for various reasons i argue in the book, it is back. and i don't think it's just because of the nostalgia factor although that's certainly a factor. also there's some coincidences. i had mentioned on my radio show a couple days ago that the weird coincidence, although you may see it not just as a coincidence, that 25 years ago almost to the exact week...
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[laughter] so i think it was a big mistake. and i think the more traditional way of doing things has been to avoid going beyond a limit in confrontation with the united states. and in that sense it's been wise. i don't think, though, that what i refer to in the book is really confrontation with third parties though i get brought into the confrontation with the united states in other forms. >> norm, and then we had a question right here. >> thank thank you. norman bailey. and thank you, jorge, i look forward with the greatest pleasure to reading the book. i'm going to disagree with something you said in response to a question, and then i'm going to ask a question. um, you said that if truck carrying the illegal immigrants is intercepted, they lose the truck, the immigrants and the money. they don't lose the money, the money's already been paid, and it's in mexico, okay? [laughter] and they don't give a damn about losing the truck and the people. that's totally immaterial. >> but then we agree it's good business. >> yes. [laughte
[laughter] so i think it was a big mistake. and i think the more traditional way of doing things has been to avoid going beyond a limit in confrontation with the united states. and in that sense it's been wise. i don't think, though, that what i refer to in the book is really confrontation with third parties though i get brought into the confrontation with the united states in other forms. >> norm, and then we had a question right here. >> thank thank you. norman bailey. and thank...
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twice as big. and it would be great if all of it was constitutional, it could be great it was if it was all effective, if it was efficient and it would be great if we could afford it. but the fact is we're where we are today with $1.6 trillion deficits because we can't afford the government we have. and so we've not concentrated on the very areas where we can find mutual agreement, we've had three bipartisan bills in here where we've cut money, significant money, a billion here, $5 billion here, $7 billion here, go through the senate with vast majority votes only to go nowhere. because the allowance for the debate on the underlying bills was stopped. the bills were pulled. so what do we do? well, the first thing we do is we look at what the problems are. what are the problems? we have a hundred different programs with a hundred sets of bureaucracies for surface transportation alone. why do we do that? why haven't we fixed it? that's a question the american people ought to be asking. we have 82 prog
twice as big. and it would be great if all of it was constitutional, it could be great it was if it was all effective, if it was efficient and it would be great if we could afford it. but the fact is we're where we are today with $1.6 trillion deficits because we can't afford the government we have. and so we've not concentrated on the very areas where we can find mutual agreement, we've had three bipartisan bills in here where we've cut money, significant money, a billion here, $5 billion...
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this gives us the viewpoint of hitler and his generals, and andrew is trying to answer the really big question to this haunted historian and many others for the last 70 years. why did germany lose the war? was it the superiority of the allied powers? was it strategic errors on hitler's part? in fact, what all of his leer's -- hilt leer's advantages, how could he have ever possibly lost this war? andrew robert's great contribution is to let us participate in effect in a grand strategy course on hitler and his generals. of all the books publishes on world war ii, none before have viewed it from this perspective alone. it is an absolutely intriguing story, and i urge you all to get yourself a copy. surprisingly, there's copies for sale on the corner on the left here, but first before you rush out to by this copy, first a few words from the great historian himself, and, yes, he does turn out to be a young one. andrew reports. -- andrew roberts. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, it's a great honor to be invited to address you this evening, and thank you very much indeed for those kind wo
this gives us the viewpoint of hitler and his generals, and andrew is trying to answer the really big question to this haunted historian and many others for the last 70 years. why did germany lose the war? was it the superiority of the allied powers? was it strategic errors on hitler's part? in fact, what all of his leer's -- hilt leer's advantages, how could he have ever possibly lost this war? andrew robert's great contribution is to let us participate in effect in a grand strategy course on...
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he was planning to go with ghandhi and the peace vision was big for him. the day hitler came to power, he was given a radio address. it was the only time he was on radio, and it was cut off in the middle. we who like romance say hitler's people turned it off. you could see in the years after world war i and how germany is shipping up to giving total obedience to a furyk. some of the people in the lutheran churches played up to hiterer. they tried to make hitler's germany into a force. the vast majority were silent. he got committed very early and hung out with a whole underground of people. i think the other thing that i would say is the turning point is they knew today we call it the movement and in the 1930s it was being born. they wanted to form what became the world council of churches. it was postponed until after the war because of the war, but he was an early agent of it, and that's one of the things that served this cause. he got to conferences in switzerland and sweden, england, the arch bishop who was over in'den was his -- eden was his contact p
he was planning to go with ghandhi and the peace vision was big for him. the day hitler came to power, he was given a radio address. it was the only time he was on radio, and it was cut off in the middle. we who like romance say hitler's people turned it off. you could see in the years after world war i and how germany is shipping up to giving total obedience to a furyk. some of the people in the lutheran churches played up to hiterer. they tried to make hitler's germany into a force. the vast...
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and so that had a big effect on me. and then, also, i knew many of the, um, writers even writers that had been blacklisted i had met, i met later in my life like maridel lassour and tilley olsen that are incredible and amazing writers that have been ignored in influence and sort of lost their momentum because of history. >> host: linda hogan, you open "dwellings" by saying you had long prayed for an eagle feather. >> guest: oh, yes. and the interesting thing is that i worked with the eagles, but it was illegal to take an eagle feather. so, you know, i had wanted an eagle feather. and i'd wanted the naming ceremony, actually, when i was young. and we didn't, we didn't have them that i knew of at the time. so, um, yes. and then, then i had an eagle feather. [laughter] >> host: what's the significance of an eagle feather? is. >> guest: you know, i couldn't explain it to you. what's the significance, i mean, they're like having something that's so, so, um, special. i mean, it's like -- >> host: a talisman? >> guest: it can
and so that had a big effect on me. and then, also, i knew many of the, um, writers even writers that had been blacklisted i had met, i met later in my life like maridel lassour and tilley olsen that are incredible and amazing writers that have been ignored in influence and sort of lost their momentum because of history. >> host: linda hogan, you open "dwellings" by saying you had long prayed for an eagle feather. >> guest: oh, yes. and the interesting thing is that i...
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is a big company we have got to lead on privacy. we have a responsibility, all of us, not just a socially respect the user but to build the technology that will protect the anonymity, the privacy and the security of what i say, who i say it tooto, where i go, what is important to me. given the recent hearing on phone tracking and given the fact that, if you happen to look at a web site and all of a sudden target the ads started popping up no matter where you go. there is a lot of concern out there about being tracked. does microsoft have the technology and do you aggregate your -- information that the information that you collect from people or can you identify individuals? >> guest: on the phone for instance, there has to be an express action by the consumer to say that you want to know, you want to make your location known. so now that is not, that is not known and not aggregated. every application, every can counter you can either turn it off completely or every action, every encounter you have to expressly say guess you want you
is a big company we have got to lead on privacy. we have a responsibility, all of us, not just a socially respect the user but to build the technology that will protect the anonymity, the privacy and the security of what i say, who i say it tooto, where i go, what is important to me. given the recent hearing on phone tracking and given the fact that, if you happen to look at a web site and all of a sudden target the ads started popping up no matter where you go. there is a lot of concern out...
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the amount of money to big business has in the campaigns. this point in his life james gadson was a railroad president and 1853 the taxpayers in this country spent millions of dollars to acquire land so the railroads could build a railroad they could draw great profits from. but that wasn't his nightmare. the nightmare is the fact we didn't meet that land to create a seven continental railroad, transcontinental railroad. the white line that you see is the intention of the senate could be built without making this purchase and in the san francisco which is the great port. this when he was talking about ended at san diego which was just at that point in time a military base that went to the land where there was no commerce, no agriculture, no future for agriculture. why were they making a purchase way down there? they would suspect there's a hidden agenda and was fed by the fact that gadsden tried to purchase that land in orange and wasn't $50 million. he is authorized to spend up to $65 million. mexico didn't want to sell any land to the unit
the amount of money to big business has in the campaigns. this point in his life james gadson was a railroad president and 1853 the taxpayers in this country spent millions of dollars to acquire land so the railroads could build a railroad they could draw great profits from. but that wasn't his nightmare. the nightmare is the fact we didn't meet that land to create a seven continental railroad, transcontinental railroad. the white line that you see is the intention of the senate could be built...
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on the one hand we have people who say the government has grown too big. republicans are saying we cannot afford it anymore. it is hurting the economy. it's a vision for the future that is very, very different from our colleagues across the aisle who basically see government as much more engaged in the process and don't want to cut back on a number of programs, a number of initiatives, a number of policies that have been put in place over a number of years. and it's not quite that clearly divided by this aisle. there are people on both sides that have shades of one way or shades of the other way. but the reality is, if we look around the world and we lack at models as to what makes economies flourish and what makes governments financially stable, we see that an overgrowth of promises, an overpromising parliaments and congresses finally brings us to the point where you no longer can afford what you promise people. that's where we are now. and so without putting those practices in place, i fear that whatever we do won't be sufficient. we'll get the downgrade
on the one hand we have people who say the government has grown too big. republicans are saying we cannot afford it anymore. it is hurting the economy. it's a vision for the future that is very, very different from our colleagues across the aisle who basically see government as much more engaged in the process and don't want to cut back on a number of programs, a number of initiatives, a number of policies that have been put in place over a number of years. and it's not quite that clearly...
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his public purse, the grandfatherly man with a big smile and the love of golf was largely his personal intervention. behind the scenes he was strategically rigorous and a tough-minded commander in chief. the people who work for him never doubted who was in charge. eisenhower was a citizen of the world more than any other president. yet he never forgot where he came from and that's why his presidential library is an abilene kansas, close to where i live. he was not a professional politician yet he was one of the most successful politicians in history and supremely protective of his hero's image. he did not hesitate to use subordinates like secretary of state john foster dulles as lightning rods for controversial policies that were in fact his creation. eisenhower had a wild temper. a timber that exploded like a rocket, but at a tense moment requiring great decisions he was unfailingly cool, koln and deliver it. this was a profoundly religious man who had prayer at the beginning of cabinet meetings. yet when the famous temporary rot income he could turn the air blue with soldierly profan
his public purse, the grandfatherly man with a big smile and the love of golf was largely his personal intervention. behind the scenes he was strategically rigorous and a tough-minded commander in chief. the people who work for him never doubted who was in charge. eisenhower was a citizen of the world more than any other president. yet he never forgot where he came from and that's why his presidential library is an abilene kansas, close to where i live. he was not a professional politician yet...